Tech Tip Tuesday (October 28, 2025)
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month
The Final Boss: Social Engineering
(The art of manipulating or deceiving you into taking an action or divulging sensitive information.)
Watch out for these three types:
The Doppelgänger and the Art of Social Engineering
Meet The Doppelgänger! This is a cyber trickster who doesn’t hack computers. He hacks people. Through emails, texts, phone calls, or even face-to-face conversations, social engineers use trust, fear, and urgency to trick you into giving up passwords, clicking links, or letting them in the door.
They might impersonate a coworker, a vendor, or even IT support — anything to make you act fast and skip thinking.
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How to Outsmart the Doppelgänger
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Blaze KingDirector of Information Technology
Email: bking@ulusd.org |